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But, to repeat, classes are never frozen and fixed, they are constantly changing; and there is good reason to look forward to - and work for - developments through which working classes will increasingly acquire a broad emancipatory outlook, a spirit of revolution expressive of the full range of identities they comprise.

… we must also guard against any tendency to revert to that idiom of the revolutionary Left in which fundamental questions were systematically evaded, on the assumption that if the ‘Manifesto’, or Marx's other writings, didn't pose these questions, let alone solve them , they could be disregarded. Drawing on the legacy of the ‘Manifesto’ today means treating it not as a sacred text, ….

What ‘The Communist Manifesto’ a hundred and fifty years ago called "stubborn historical facts" are break- ing through the illusions fostered by neo-liberal rhetoric-and equally through the pseudo-left illusions of "new times," "radicalism of the cen- ter, "the" third way "and all similar dreams of a capitalist world miraculously freed from alienation, immiseration, and crises. [2001]